Cardiology strategic planning

Cardiology Strategic Planning

IHE Cardiology is planning work in the following areas:

Improve information exchange between different healthcare providers by defining CDA implementation guides for different subspecialites in Cardiology (eg. Cardiac Catherization, Electrophysiology)
Usage of structured data through transformation of key data elements into CDA document format for preparation of Quality-Registry submissions (e.g. NCDR-ICD, NCDR-CATH/PCI, PINNACLE)
Define EP Lab workflow and data exchange
Incorporate information exchange with EMR systems into Cardiology workflows
Promote use of Cardiology data in IHE ITI Cross-Enterprise document sharing profiles
Promote wider adoption of IHE Cardiology-developed profiles (e.g. IEO, DRPT) by other domains
Define profiles supporting Meaningful Use
Promote increased adoption of IHE profiles in user and vendor communities

Domain	Liason	Activity
IT Infrastructure	Nick Gawrit	RFD profile
Patient Care Coordination	Chris Melo	Re-use of CDA templates and common care coordination capabilities
Patient Care Devices	TBD	IDCO profile
Quality, Research, Public Health	TBD	Submission to cardiac registries Quality measure reporting for cardiac indicators
Radiology	Antje Schroeder	Re-use of workflow profiles Enhancement to imaging workflow based on Cardiology use cases: Intermittently connected modalities MWL Query by Admission ID Document (CDA) references in orders and MWL Issuer of Patient ID / multiple Patient IDs (Dutch BSN, etc.)